President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

A trunk filled with reproductions and models of Civil War-era items is giving middle school students here an opportunity to more deeply explore that time period.

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

A local filmmaker is holding open screenings of his original documentary about Upstate New York’s role in the Underground ...

America should celebrate federal workers. They make sure your child can go to a clean national park, you can take a safe ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

The president’s executive order would purportedly end a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution. But that's not how this works.

Some causes included an end to the Vietnam War; nuclear disarmament ... and other civil rights. The 1964 Civil Rights Act spurred the passage of Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments ...

A GOP-led bill to require the detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes is on the verge of passage in the Senate ... argued it would undermine civil liberties and due process ...